Manasseh Cutler

Manasseh Cutler (13 May 1742-28 July 1833) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MA 11) from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1803 (succeeding Bailey Bartlett and preceding William Stedman) and from MA-3 from 4 March 1803 to 3 March 1805 (succeeding Ebenezer Mattoon and preceding Jeremiah Nelson).

Biography
Manasseh Cutler was born in Killingly, Connecticut in 1742, and he worked as a schoolteacher in Dedham, Massachusetts before becoming a lawyer and a minister in Ipswich in 1771, serving until his death in 1833. He also served as a Continental Army chaplain during the American Revolutionary War, and, after the war, he played a key role in the settlement of the Northwest Territory by drafting the Ordinance of 1787 and making Arthur St. Clair the appointed governor; he is nicknamed "the Father of Ohio University". He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1801 to 1805, and he died in 1833.